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First of all, not having a GPS does not automatically imply getting lost. People used to be able to navigate just fine most of the time before that technology w
by kleiba 8y ago
First of all, not having a GPS does not automatically imply getting lost. People used to be able to navigate just fine most of the time before that technology was available.
And then, what's wrong with asking someone for directions? I've been asked many times in the olden days and never once was it an unpleasant experience.
- jonknee 8y ago> And then, what's wrong with asking someone for directions? The frequently terrible answers!
- gjs278 8y ago>And then, what's wrong with asking someone for directions? completely wasting their time. use your phone.
- scarface74 8y agoAnd then, what's wrong with asking someone for directions? Ask this 14 year old.... https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/14/us/michigan-man-shoots-at-teen-asking-for-directions/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/14/us/michigan-man-shoots-at-tee... The last thing I want to do is be lost somewhere in the South. Yes I live in the south.
- reaperducer 8y agoThanks for the anecdote. Doesn't prove a thing.
- scarface74 8y agoIf I got lost somewhere where there are no stores for miles around I would never walk up and ask for directions at someone's house or if my car broke down (https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/07/us/michigan-woman-shot/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/07/us/michigan-woman-shot/index....). The "anecdote" is even in my own neighborhood, if my son invites some of his White friends (who are his guests) to hang out at our neighborhood pool. He gets asked does he belong there? Do you think I would leave him in a position to have to walk up and ask a random stranger for directions if he got lost while driving? It was sheer luck that both the teenager didn't die and the guys own camera showed he was lying. If the boy had been killed the man would have gotten off. If the camera hadn't been there, they would have taken the word of "upstanding member of society -- a retired fireman" over the word of "just another teenage thug" and the boy would have been arrested.
- kleiba 8y agoWell, if my car broke down, I probably wouldn't ask for directions, either.
- latexr 8y agoIf I ask anyone I know “a teenager stopped at a man’s house to ask for directions and was shot. Guess the country?”, I bet the overwhelmingly majority (if not all) will say “U.S.A” without skipping a beat. I wouldn’t even need to mention the races of the people involved. Not to detract from your experience (after all, you live there), but I doubt that situation is representative of most of the world.
- reaperducer 8y ago>I've been asked many times in the olden days and never once was it an unpleasant experience. I must give off some kind of approachable vibe, because I get asked for directions by strangers at least once a week.